Do I get a Blue Peter badge!?

[RHEINGOLD]

Stickleback Plastic,
To answer Tony's question about "stickleback plastic" which I missed;.............whenever they were making something,("and here's one I made earlier"...oh yeah !) it always seemed to involve using a metal coat-hanger,some empty toilet roll tubes,an empty plastic washing up bottle and a roll or sheet of "stickleback plastic." 

[Caz]

Think you will find it was "Sticky back plastic", think it has the trade name of "Fablon" at the time.

[RHEINGOLD]

Caz,
Re "Stickleback Plastic"
Do you take me for a complete fool? 
Humf... "sticky back plastic" indeed,.....my backs*de !
As for Fablon I think you're referring to John Gotti who was of course famously known as The Fablon Don.
Sort yourself out young man or you'll end up bemused,befuddled and confumbled....er in fact... just like me. 

[joe cassidy]

What amused me about Blue Peter was the lengths they would go to to avoid being accused of advertising.
The washing up liquid bottle had to be sanded down to remove all traces of "Fairy Liquid".
I hope the same bottle was reused several times.

[Newportnobby]

Sort yourself out young man or you'll end up bemused,befuddled and confumbled....er in fact... just like me. 

Just to further correct you - Caz is a young lady

[austinbob]

Sort yourself out young man or you'll end up bemused,befuddled and confumbled....er in fact... just like me. 

Just to further correct you - Caz is a young lady

Oops. I hope you don't make a habit of confusing hims and hers!!

[Trainfish]

I never could find a shop which sold stickleback plastic, now I know why.

By the way, the smaller trunking is usually called mini trunking and the larger compartmented trunking is dado trunking. I should know as I've fitted a few miles of it (horrible though it is) in my time as a hairy arsed sparky. 

[Caz]

Just to further correct you - Caz is a young lady

I like the young bit Mick, where do I send the cheque?   

[Tdm]

Dedo, Dado, Dodo - at least one of those is dead, and the other has possibly had a name change. Many many years ago when I was an I.T. Manager in Conwy (and that is the correct Welsh spelling of Conwy by the way) I am sure I signed a contract for a new Computer Room and the whole of the building where I worked to be equipped with new "dedo" trunking so a computer terminal could be plugged in anywhere within the building (except the "Loo").

Maybe the sub-contractor who got the job got the spelling wrong on the contract, or I have just remembered it wrong - it doesn't really matter as you know what I was talking about.
Maybe I will soon be going the way of the Dodo - it's my birthday tomorrow and I will be 27 (I'm dyslexic by the way!).

[Newportnobby]

Just to further correct you - Caz is a young lady

I like the young bit Mick, where do I send the cheque?   

I believe you have the details of my Swiss bank account, Caz

[Caz]

I believe you have the details of my Swiss bank account, Caz

      

Think the trunking takes its name from the rail that used to run around rooms at about waist height and was called a dado rail, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dado_rail   

[RHEINGOLD]

I thought Dido was some English blond singer,but she must have come down in the world if she's having to carry wires around a room or building to earn an "honest crust".
Still I suppose someone's got to do it and a job's a job nowadays.

[joe cassidy]

How about "duct tape". Does Anyone Know what that is ? Apparently it exists in America.

Joe

[RHEINGOLD]

Yes it's really stickleback plastic but comes as rolls of tape in strips of various widths rather than sheets of plastic.
It's called Duck Tape in America (a lot of American's refer to it as Duct Tape but we know what they're like when it comes to spelling) and is used for fixing things,wrapping/packing things and just about everything else you can think of.

[trainsdownunder]

Yes it's really stickleback plastic but comes as rolls of tape in strips of various widths rather than sheets of plastic.
It's called Duck Tape in America (a lot of American's refer to it as Duct Tape but we know what they're like when it comes to spelling) and is used for fixing things,wrapping/packing things and just about everything else you can think of.

Not quite sticky back plastic as it is a woven fabric with plastic coating one side and strong adhesive the other.
DUCK tape is not a mis spelling but refers back to the tapes origin as a "cotton duck" material used as a strengthener. DUCK Tape is also a Brand name. It is known by an assortment of names the other most popular being GAFFER TAPE which is actually a  different product. (different glue). DUCT Tape is again a similar product but was originally developed ( I believe) for heating and ventilation system joints - it's glue being resistant to heat.